Carl B. Latro

The self-driving car wars really kicked off this month, with first Waymo's taxis getting rid of their in-car monitor-guy and then Tesla pushing out its Full Self Driving BETA software to a select few of the good and safe drivers they've detected among their users. So here's three long videos of these in action.

First, here's a guy's bunch of trips in a Waymo taxi.
No intervention at all by anyone in the car there, though it's thought there's a chaser car following.

And here's a Tesla trip, which seems quite impressive, though intervention happens, but mostly of the 'let's go a bit faster here please' variety.
Note that on highway driving FSD BETA automatically switches to standard Autopilot, and there's a long bit of that in the middle of this video.

And here's another Tesla trip, which by contrast seems quite hairy! Many interventions here, with commentary to match. (It's real annoying that the rear-view mirror blocks the view ahead. It would've been a very informative video if not for that!)

Going by these, I'd say Waymo's ahead, (Look Ma, no driver!), but who knows by how much?

This should prove a fun competition...

https://www.teslamotors.com/support/correction-article-first-person-hack-iphone-built-self-driving-car

There is the possibility that George Hotz has come up with a better brain, which presumably could be connected to a hive mind to add fleet-learning. Since he's planning on becoming an Uber driver, maybe they'd be interested in his tech. I'm sure driver-less cars are in their long-term plans.